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in the tibiae, etc., but his monograph of 1895 is the most com- 

 prehensive revision of the group ever published and is invalu- 

 able to the student of these interesting insects. 



Bufotettix, new genus. 



This genus is remarkable for its small size and short 

 legs of the only known species. 



Description. — Head barely as broad as the anterior part of 

 the pronotum and furnished above with a few small granules 

 or tubercles, one near the inner margin of each eye and a pair 

 at the base of the fastigium of the vertex being the only ones 

 of noticeable size ; fastigium of the vertex horizontal, triangu- 

 lar in shape, and very small, less than half as broad basally as 

 the basal segment of the antenna and not surpassing the an- 

 tennal scrobae, apically minutely notched and not quite meeting 

 the facial fastigium ; eyes globular, very prominent, being un- 

 usually protuberant ; antennae moderately slender, the basal 

 segment large and furnished with an outer dorsolateral apical 

 tooth, or elongate tubercle ; second segment one-half as thick 

 and about one-third as long as the basal one, twice as thick as 

 the succeeding ones, which are cylindrical. Pronotum rugose, 

 the disk flat and gently constricted mesially, somewhat broader 

 posteriorly than anteriorly, the front margin with a mesial well- 

 elevated tubercle, the hind margin truncate and very little pro- 

 longed posteriorly ; transverse sulci distinct, especially the 

 posterior one ; lateral carinae distinct only on the metanotum ; 

 lateral lobes subvertical, almost twice as long as deep, the lower 

 margins straight and horizontal, somewhat thickened, the front 

 angles rectangular, the posterior ones rounded, the posterior 

 margins slanting backward, without distinct humeral sinus ; 

 prosternum with a pair of very short blunt spines or tubercles ; 

 meso- and metasternum rectangular, about three times as broad 

 as long, the pits far separated and connected by a deep trans- 

 verse sulcus. Abdomen stout ; last dorsal segment apically 

 broadly concave ; supraanal plate triangular, longitudinally sul- 

 cate dorsally ; subgenital plate elongate, apically narrowing and 

 deeply notched, each angle slightly longer than broad and with 

 an apical blunt cylindrical style about three times as long as 



